Thursday, December 29, 2011

Hatred sets men one against another. The father of evil (if you believe
the Bible) is Satan; the one thing Satan wants more than anything else is for
men to hate one another. The fact that men hating one another breeds violence and
causes men to destroy one another means that we do Satan’s work for him.

Perhaps you do not believe in Satan or in objective evil. If you insist on
disbelieving in Satan that is fine; but not believing that we can define evil
as one man stirring hatred for another for any reason seems to be lacking in
understanding. For if we hate one another we can never have peace.

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Let not him who
is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and
build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from
violence when built. Abraham Lincoln

Let us paraphrase
this for the modern era: Let not the poor man steal (whether with his own hand
or by government action) from the rich but rather let him learn to become rich
and build his own wealth thereby assuring that his wealth will be safe from the
greed of other men.

Greed is without
a doubt at the heart of wishing to have what you desire without work. But greed
always leads to everyone having less goods and less security.